Innovative Educational Tools for Youth Work

Paralel-Silistra News

The BeActive project partners have created and published a set of innovative tools to enhance youth volunteers to train young people or initiate youth campaigns.  

Firstly, the publication “Digital Portfolio of the Project Partner” talks about projects, initiatives, campaigns and other practices accomplished by the project partners. 

Then, the “BeActive Toolkit of Shared Practices” in English is meant to inspire young people from the four countries with good examples of implemented initiatives for nature conservation, fostering tolerance towards differences, and promoting civic engagement in regional issues. The Partners created the booklet and included their shared practices, which might work in other regions. It was discussed and assembled at a partner meeting in Tenerife (January 2023). It is available at: https://paralel-silistra.net/active/publications/. 

Another unique tool is the ‘Preliminary Agenda and Suggested Scenarios’ for the ‘Quest in Sicily’ training, which was approbated in April 2023. It holds examples of inspiring experiential approaches to youth training, tested on the island of Sicily, involving 20 young people from the four partner countries. 

Finally, the “Guide to National Actions and Events – 16 Days of Activism” enhances and inspires youth campaigns’ organization and performance, including the project campaign ’16 Days of Activism’. It includes information on planning steps, online promotion, and national and European Union-level campaign awareness. The guide also describes sample activities that can inspire numerous new initiatives in other regions.

The project’s website contains many educational publications encouraging youth activism while enabling youth workers to benefit from working models in other countries. Lastly, you can find more video and photo stories by visiting the WIKI Active menu at https://paralel-silistra.net/active/wiki/.

The site will continuously enrich its information sources. To learn about our new activities, you can also follow the Facebook page BeActive https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088391613086.

The BeActive project, funded by the Erasmus+ program, is being implemented by four organizations: Association “Parallel-Silistra”, Bulgaria; Association “Creativa”, Spain; European Institute “For Citizens”, Portugal; and “Bosco Angimbe” Association, Italy.